wood grouse†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a grouse, Canachites canadensis, dark gray barred with black, found in swampy woods.

Quotations

1963

There was [York Factory, c1880] beaver . . . wood-grouse--pheasants we used to call them--trout. . . .